There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
After Political independence, Africans needed mental freedom for them to advocate for economical independence
Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.
There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.
Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never w...
For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pul...
I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you...
Urge people to work, not to eat.
Much talk, little work.
Every excuse is good, if it works.
The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
